Return To 1990

Multiple Punishments

The next morning, Lu Feng handed the workshop to Datou. There were three more carriages of fresh fruits being unloaded. Lu Feng stood at the door and looked at the carriages that had come to pick up the goods. He felt that they were fewer.

“Why aren’t there enough cars to transfer the goods?” Lu Feng muttered.

“It’s normal. The supply has been sufficient for the past few days, and we are not being robbed.” Datou said.

Lu Feng felt that something was not right; as the saying went, one couldn’t get up early without benefits. Moreover, the profits from canned food were huge. This group had been handling this for some time, but only a few of Zhou Hao’s subordinates were present this morning.

“Why are there so few people today?” Lu Feng walked up to the crowd and started inquiring.

Many just laughed at him, making Lu Feng feel that something was wrong. He pulled a familiar young man aside to ask.

“Boss Lu, you don’t know?” The other party whispered.

“What?”

“You don’t know how many people are jealous of your business success. Recently, there have been a few new workshops like yours. They’ve all gone there to get 3 cents a bottle.”

Lu Feng now understood the weird behavior. No wonder the prices of the fruits in the village had increased recently; he had bought too many of them. He started thinking about prying on the large market.

He realized everything now.

“I’m leaving!” Lu Feng greeted Datou on his way out and drove home on his new motorcycle.

On the way, he thought about the intense competition in the market that started even before completing a month in the game. The next step was to turn it white-hot. He did not know if he could earn his 300,000.

Lu Feng had not researched the fruit stock, consumption ability, purchasing power, etc., in the surrounding rural markets; there was but one thing he could be sure of.

When a business faces vicious competition, the first thing they do is fight a price war. Inevitably, their profits would drop, and when local fruits are used up, and the seasonal fruits vanish from the market, the cost would increase exponentially. This business game is over.

Lu Feng refrained from overthinking the topic and parked the motorcycle at his usual spot in the unit building. $250,000 was no problem. The money was enough to support him into the next round of business investment.

“Oh, Lu Feng bought a motorcycle!” A middle-aged female voice inquired.

“Yeah, did aunty not go for exercise this morning?” Lu Feng asked politely.

“No, Walking is so tiring. I have a motorcycle in my house now. If I want to go anywhere, I can just go. Little Feng is promising. I heard that you’ve opened a factory!”

“I’m just messing around. I won’t bother you anymore. I have to go home first.”

As Lu Feng spoke, he hurried upstairs. His family had already become a target for everyone in this building. A few days ago, someone found Jiang Xiaoyan and wanted his child to be in the workshop.

Jiang Xiaoyan rejected him, but it was another round of gossip in the end. He Yanli was the happiest among them.

After Lu Feng successfully started business in his previous life, he had a small amount of capital, but in the end, a bunch of people came to borrow money from him. He would never lend it to any stranger. A bunch of people made up lies and said that he was doing a business that was not completely transparent with the government.

Something like human nature is filled with darkness whenever shown the slightest goodwill!

Jiang Xiaoyan had fully packed. She changed into a long dress and tied up her hair; she was a pure, beautiful, tall girl with an indescribable charm.

She is only twenty-three years old. A few years later, she could have just graduated from university and lived a peaceful and prosperous life by herself. Previously, she had been a little dull, but now that the household’s condition was getting better, she developed a little girl’s mischievousness and vivacity.

She and Duo Duo were often mistaken for sisters by strangers.

Lu Feng pushed open the door. When he saw Jiang Xiaoyan, he was stunned.

“Come in. It’s not like you’ve entered the wrong house.” Jiang Xiaoyan was embarrassed to be stared at by him.

“Mommy is so beautiful!” Duo Duo hugged Jiang Xiaoyan’s thigh happily.

Lu Feng closed the door and appreciated her beauty. He felt like Duo Duo. In his previous life, he was a bachelor. Many teased him that his wife may still be in kindergarten.

It did feel similar.

“Let’s talk first. Don’t buy expensive clothes. Buy a few pairs of clothes, a pair of shoes, and two suits for yourself. You can be considered a model figure now.” Jiang Xiaoyan seemed to have already calculated what to buy.

Lu Feng smiled at her stingy outlook.

The three walked out of the building and headed straight for the downtown service and trade building; This was the most expensive place in the city; otherwise, they would have no choice but to go to the wholesale market or roadside stalls.

Jiang Xiaoyan wanted to go to a roadside stall, but Lu Feng dragged her into the service and trade department store and bought a lot of roadside snacks. The little girl happily called out to Daddy along the way.

This was a place where rich people came. There was a reception, a sales guide, and an elevator. It was decorated magnificently. Any piece of clothing would cost six or seven dollars, or dozens, or even hundreds.

Jiang Xiaoyan walked around. She liked every one of them, but she hurriedly pulled Lu Feng away when she saw the price, causing the salespeople to laugh at her.

“If you like it, buy it. I’ll pay the bill!” Lu Feng said.

“Isn’t your money my money?” Jiang Xiaoyan rolled her eyes at him and said, “Let’s go out to the stall and buy it. That dress just now cost 17 dollars. I can buy it for two dollars at most outside.”

Lu Feng could not help but laugh when he saw her way of living, “I’ m going to the bathroom!”

There was a bench not far away. Jiang Xiaoyan sat there with a lot of people and complained. “Your father had just earned a few dollars, and he is already floating.”

Listening to her mother’s nagging, Duo Duo sat there as she munched on the snacks. The sales guides gathered together and were whispering to each other. Their gazes would occasionally drift towards Jiang Xiaoyan with a hint of disdain.

“You don’t have money, and you still want to come in and pretend to be rich? There are just too many of these people.”

“Look at that piece of stock on her. It’s from a few years ago. She’s dying for recognition!”

“That’s right. She’ll probably be bragging about it for a few days when she gets back. ‘I went to the service and trade building in the city to buy clothes.”

“Hahahaha!”

“That woman is probably coming in.”

The sales staff quickly corrected their posture. A woman in her late twenties was wearing high heels and a pair of sunglasses, with a little boy next to her. She was full of confidence.

One could tell that she was rich from one look. Her clothes were expensive, and she had a great fashion sense.

The little boy walked to Duo Duo’s side and stared at the snacks in her hand. He shouted,” Mommy, I want to eat!”

The woman glanced at Duo Duo and said, “It’s not good. Mommy will take you to KFC later.”

“I want to eat that!” The little boy had a bad temper and rushed to Duo Duo. He reached out and snatched the snacks from Duo Duo’s hands. She immediately hugged Jiang Xiaoyan and started crying.

“Mommy—”

“You child, you’re eating such trash. You’re about to lose it.” the woman snatched it from the boy and threw it on the ground, scolding the boy.

When she saw her snacks thrown on the ground, she did not care about the dirt and ran over to pick them up.

“Don’t eat them anymore.” Jiang Xiaoyan hurriedly ran over to stop Duo Duo.

After the woman scolded the boy, she snapped at Jiang Xiaoyan,

“What happened to your child?”

 “You can’t even watch your child. You made my child cry.” Jiang Xiaoyan retorted.

Duo Duo cried so much that she felt her heartache as she looked at the snacks on the ground. She cried, “You’ll pay for my food!”

The boy was very oppressive. He rushed up and moved, pushing Duo Duo to the ground. Duo Duo was about to fall when she reached out and grabbed the boy’s clothes, making the two of them fall over each other.

The boy lay on the ground and wailed. He was rolling around and throwing a tantrum!

“Where did this country bumpkin come from? How dare she bully my child!” The woman cursed and raised her hand to hit Jiang Xiaoyan.

Jiang Xiaoyan saw that the woman was dressed appropriately and did not look like a middle-class person; hence, she did not dare retaliate. She covered her face and started apologizing repeatedly.